George Herriman set his sui generis 1913-1944 comic strip "Krazy Kat" in a version of Arizona's Coconino County, abstracted into a perpetually shifting landscape of crags and mesas and scrubby little plants.
As the film builds to its explosive conclusion, the two companions dance around their feelings, treading a perpetually shifting line between friendship and romance, their respective other commitments dooming what is a real yet flickering connection.
That's certainly the impression she conveys, sitting in her Midtown office, speaking in bursts, her lanky limbs perpetually shifting, long fingers gripping, twirling, flipping a basketball, never losing control.
We face similar frustrations, authors and independent booksellers, as we work to thrive in an industry publishing--that can feel at once perpetually shifting and hopelessly stuck.
Where once there was an accepted hierarchy of bands and albums, these days everything is perpetually shifting.
Boundaries and distributions are perpetually shifting.
Thus, the agencies rate pools with assets that are perpetually shifting.
There's the electric sensation that all is held in suspense, while perpetually shifting between one state and another.
"Had He created the Earth perfectly spherical, its axis might have been perpetually shifting by the influence of the other bodies of the system," Jefferson once told Thomson.
In the somewhat murky and perpetually shifting business climate of the post-Soviet era, there were protests that a national landmark was being sold to Westerners, and charges that the prime minister, Peter Medgyessy, a former banker and a paid consultant on the project, had benefited personally from the sale.
The fact is that the coming years will be dominated by a vast amount of shuttle diplomacy between Brussels and other European capitals, in response to perpetually shifting negotiating positions, and while constantly having to keep our own parliament on side.
